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This is a pano from 5 vertical shots. We dont get much cool weather here in SoCal, so I was happy to see these clouds, which were actually a different shot from later in the day.
Strobist: bare 550ex about 6 feet from subject on camera right, and another on camera left.
I took out a tree in the background, but you can still see the reflection...
I've now moved on from DPS assignments(more's the pity) You can follow my blog as I explore New Zealand here-
Believe me, this was way harder to achieve than it looks. I had to do two trips to the beach as I just could not get the angles right on the first day. The angles of the vertical lines changed depending on how far the camera was from the box, what the POV angle was and how wide I had my lens, and not being able to clearly see my screen on my camera didn't help either. I had to enlist Mr FKG to help me draw it today, it took over an hour to get it right(and it could have still done with some tweaking) but we were running out of light.
"Best of the Year 2012"- Sand Box
This was orignally submitted for the Forced Perspective assignment. I chose this shot for my "Best of Year" mainly because of the planning and the time & effort that went into creating it which included two visits to the beach (as I just couldn't get the angles right the first time). While it might look simple enough it was a tough challenge to draw, I had to draw around 10 large "boxes" before I finally got the right perspective.
A pretty complicated setup for a relatively plain shot. This week's submission for the next 102 assignment, the concept being 'going green'. Seeing as we are going through a phase of 'grow your own' at home, I thought that a shot symbolising this would be in order. However, I didn't bank on the unfeasibly good weather that we have for the last two days. This is great for the suntan and the bbq skills, but less so for the strobist fun, as it's far too bright to take any outdoor shots during the day.
By the time the evening comes bringing more appealing light, I've generally had a glass or two of vino (especially as there was a certain sports game this afternoon that shall not be mentioned); and I can't get my head around the finer points of subtle lighting after booze.
Strobist: SB28 in snoot rear and camera right, providing the hard directional light on the right hand side of the 'hill'. A silver 'tin foil' reflector slightly above the camera angled down to provide the main fill on the shot. Two tricky bits:
i) I had to gobo the bare light with a) my laptop (makes a good flag) and b) a bit of gaffer tape stuck to my laptop, in order to prevent nuking the stem and leaf.
ii) it was tricky to get the reflected light to hit 'just' where I wanted it, so I stuck a torch (flashlight) on top of the strobe to get an idea of what the light was doing.
Assignment 52: Represent your own brand of holiday madness during this busy & festive season.
So here is Po, no more pleased to be posing with Christmas tree lights than she was the first time around, despite the caption I chose for the cards. Call it irony if you wish -- can't every holiday use some? Po actually is quite a joyful dog, & always well-rewarded for posing! (And I'm joyful that I managed to get cards printed this year! Now to start mailing---)
Assignment52-142014: Letters and Numbers: the obvious.
Inspired by: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXO4KiO78nY
Assignment 52 - My own favorite shots from 2013
My sense of wonder & amazement at the star trails fits well with how I feel about this place, the house we built in the mountains as a "second home." I had to work so hard to get this shot, & it taught me so much -- about shutter speed & long exposures, & manual settings, & remote shutter releases, & how to get over tripod-phobia & develop a facility for using one in the dark on a steep, uneven surface--- etc. Lots of experimenting & re-takes & perseverance required, & climbing up & down the slope in the dark, hoping to
avoid both cactus & bears, & with 30 min. exposures, the number of chances in any given night is limited. Plus it's a narrow window -- a few days near the new moon, for the best opportunities, & in the end, I also needed some luck for a night with no cloud cover. It was Ann (ND Wind Twins) who gave me the idea to take this on, though she ran out of time & cloudless nights to do it herself. Maybe she will yet -- I'd like to do some more myself---
Here's a link to some of my more successful experiments, before I got this one:
Assignment 52 -- October Colors
The leaves around here have been very slow to turn this fall, & all the leaves in my own trees are still green. I found quite a lot of color at the Arboretum, though. So much that I had a hard time choosing for the assignment. Here's the link to others:
Assignment: Murder, by Donald Hamilton
Dell First Edition A123, 1956
Cover art by Victor Kalin
Later printings by Gold Medal were retitled Assassins Have Starry Eyes
Submission for Active Assignment Weekly: Nov 30 - Dec 7 "Tension"
I see two forms of "Tension" here: 1) the tension between seasons, and 2) the natural tension of the plant covering itself so tightly. I did some post processing to remove distractions and get closer to the "tense" part of the flower.
Active Assignment Weekly: All about Ernst Haas
This photo is about colour and slow shutter speed, blurring the movement of this dog playing in the Lake Ontario shallows. I usually use very fast shutter speeds, so this was a change for me and I think I got some nice captures that look different to what I normally take.
WIT: I have cropped the image and I brightened the image a bit.
02Jordahl01 Spaceship (example of how to submit 02module assignment)
These five photographs show my love of travel and adventure. I would take both my memories of Norway, where my husband was born and of Japan where I have dear friends with me on my journey. It is appropriate in a way with my wonderful but different experiences of these two countries echo this assignment. My experience of Norway is of being foreign and coming to feel at home. I have learned to speak the language and identify with this small community-centered culture. I love Norwegian food and customs. Could I ever feel at home like this on my new distant planet? Perhaps that is where Japan comes in. I have visited three times and enjoy the energy of the cities and the beauty of the countryside. I have dear friends here, but I will never feel at home. I come to accept that I will never fully understand what is happening or what the customs are before I do something not quite right. I simple apologize a great deal and enjoy the unexpected nature of every interaction. I sense that perhaps my experience on my new planet might be more like this - - never again at home and always trying to understand but enjoying the challenge.
My favorite two are the "View toward the Vega Archipelago" and "Buddha and Monk, Nara, Japan" Each of these photographs expresses my need for contemplation both in nature and in sacred places. They would be comforting in the journey away from all I know and love.
Assignment 52 - Silhouettes
I'm fortunate to be in Georgia this week for this assignment, with fabulous light & horizons for silhouette shots. Since this is a trip to visit Po's son, Hibou, at the field trial pro's where he's in training, I'm indulging in a bunch of dog silhouettes. Here's yet another:
Assignment Nuclear Nude, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal R2000, 1968 PBO
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
Cover art was not credited anywhere in this book; confirmed as McGinnis in The Paperback Covers of Robert McGinnis by Art Scott & Dr. Wallace Maynard.
#27 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Camera settings:
Monochrome
Red Filter
High Sharpness
High Contrast
f 7.1
1/250
ISO 100
Auto White Balance
Spot metered
Lens 70-200 and shot at 200mm
Opened in DPP then sent to Photoshop (DPP converts the file to a TIFF) where a minor adjustment to levels and high pass filter were applied.
I love this camera setting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks cacheboyz!!!!! :-))
The tissue box and the pencil box were the first assignment...a ball point pen the same color as the items. Then we were told to fill the page with other blue items, and another assignment was to write a letter to a friend, and to save a piece of paper and treat it as something special as it would be to people in a land where things were not so plentiful....so I put all of them in one, and still drew all day!! ha!
Mission Statement: 0978:- Our most recent assignment brought us to the planet of Talus. -Log on Talus- Master, for we have no other name for him, claimed that our next target was to be found in the south-western hemepshere of the planet. -Coordinates 06:45:13- When we arrived it was to no suprise that are target was located in some old ruins. Through an extensive and wasteful search, we could not find our target. Through interrogation of the locals, as protocol, we learned it's location. 451 infiltrated the hide out of the tomb raiders who obtained it. All were disposed of and the target was taken.
-Result-
-Relic Obtained
-Witness' Terminated
-Outpost Destroyed
Active Assignment Weekly: Minimalism/K.I.S.S
This is my second and final photo submission for this assignment, but my fourth attempt at high speed water drop photography. I think this is my best so far! I think that the negative space and the singular subject qualifies it as "Minimalist".
What it took: WELL, the setup is a ziploc bag of water clipped onto my background stand, dripping down onto a piece of glass which is on top of a pan to catch the water. I have a blue piece of paper behind that, and my external flash is pointed toward the background paper. The flash is set on 1/64 power, and the camera is set at shutter speed 1/200 and f/13.
Title: Assignment Helene.
Author: Edward S. Aarons.
Publisher: Gold Medal Books.
Date: 1963.
Artist: Barye Phillips.
Active Assignment Weekly: April 15-22, 2024, Simplicity. To me, simplicity means no distractions. I decided to use two of the many different techniques available to achieve this - fill the frame ("After the Rain") and negative space ("Beach Time"). Both photos were taken at Point Pelee National Park, Ontario. You'll be seeing a lot of pictures from this park, as I am here for two months (it is a bird migration hotspot).
Swarali Photo Assignment (November, 2015)
Title:
People:
Place:Redmond
Date:2015:11:15 11:41:49
File:DSC_7071.jpg
Assignment 52: Create a mood with color
Po, sitting under a tree on the training grounds
(I'm out of town with intermittent internet access & quirky website blocks, & will try to catch up with commenting when I can----)
"into the light"
baby girl Lyra, 10 mos old
Depth of Field/Focus Assignment
I'm playing catch up on flickr tonight so I hope this works for the dof assignment for Studio 26, it's been a crazy 2 weeks and I sincerely apologize for not participating in the discussions this assignment.
ƒ/2.8 145.0mm 1/125 ISO 400